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WORLD NEWS Friday 6 OctOber 2023

NYC mayor to residents of Puebla, Mexico: 'Mi casa es su casa,'

but 'there's no more room'

By Daniel Shailer sons,” said Adams. In his
Associated Press address to Puebla’s state
PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — congress earlier, the may-
New York City Mayor Eric or emphasized the role of
Adams brought a mix of New York City’s migrant
messages to central Mexi- community during the pan-
co's Puebla state on Thurs- demic. “During COVID-19 it
day, as he tried to carefully was your children that kept
walk the line of mayor of a our stores open, the first
city known for welcoming responders, transportation
migrants from around the professionals, healthcare
world, but currently strug- professionals,” he said. “We
gling with a continuing in- survived COVID because
flux of asylum seekers. your children were in our
Inside Puebla's ornate state city.” After the speeches
congress building, decked by Puebla's governor and
floor-to-ceiling in cream- the city mayor, members
yellow Portuguese tiles bro- of congress began chant-
ken only by Greco-Roman ing “Adams hermano, ya
columns, Adams focused eres poblano,” a welcome
on the ties binding his city which translates to “Brother
and a Mexican state that Adams, you are already a
has sent some 800,000 of Pueblan.”
its people to New York over New York Mayor Eric Adams sits with AT&T Mexico CEO Monica Aspe during a forum by the US - The mayor began a four-
the years. Mexico Foundation in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. day tour of Latin America
But later, talking to report- (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) on Wednesday evening
ers, Adams again returned mediately afterwards, how- lum seekers in the last year. was never designed for a with a visit to the Basilica
to the refrain that he has ever, the mayor was more Late Tuesday, New York humanitarian crisis like the of Guadalupe, in Mexico
carried on his Latin America direct. City asked a court for city faces today. City, a place of worship for
trip: New York is “at capac- “There is no more room in the ability to suspend its Adams said the current cri- many would-be migrants
ity.” “We are neighbors. New York. Our hearts are unique, so-called “right to sis has been partly caused immediately before they
We are familia. Mi casa endless, but our resources shelter” agreement that by what he called Texas begin their journey north.
es su casa. Your struggles are not," he said. "We don’t requires it to provide emer- Gov. Greg Abbott's "inhu- Over the next two days
are my struggles,” Adams want to put people in con- gency housing to anyone mane" decision last April Adams plans to travel to
said inside the legislative gregate shelters. We don’t who asks for it. to send migrants on char- Quito, Ecuador, and Bogo-
chamber shortly after the want people to think they The filing is the latest in a tered buses from his state ta, Colombia, before visit-
state governor dubbed him will be employed.” monthslong attempt to to New York City. ing the jungle-clad Darien
"Mayor of Puebla York.” Adams said around 800,000 suspend the law which “These are human beings Gap, a particularly dan-
“(Migrants) are our future immigrants from the state has long made New York that have traveled in very gerous section of the route
and we cannot lose one of of Puebla live in New York a sanctuary city. On Tues- dangerous terrains. And many migrants take north
them,” said Adams. City, which has had to ab- day the Adams administra- what he’s doing is exploit- at the border of Panama
Speaking to reporters im- sorb over 120,000 more asy- tion argued the agreement ing this for political rea- and Colombia.q

Spanish charity protests Italy’s impounding of rescue ship for multiple rescues

Associated Press people in three operations, tain was questioned for six
MILAN (AP) — Italy has im- including people of “ex- hours and the boat was
pounded the Spanish char- treme vulnerability.” impounded after arriving
ity rescue ship Open Arms Italy assigned a port after in Carrera, the port it had
for violating rules by Italy's the first two rescues of 69 been assigned.
right-wing government people in international wa- The government made no
banning multiple rescues at ters Saturday. Open Arms statements about the ac-
sea, the charity said Thurs- said it then received a may- tion. Premier Giorgia Meloni
day. day call from the Seabird is in Granada, Spain, for a
The boat is blocked from aerial surveillance charity summit where she is push-
leaving the port of Carrera that another migrant boat ing her European Union
in Tuscany for 20 days and was in danger, overcrowd- partners to come up with
the charity has been lev- ed with 109 people. policies to block illegal mi-
ied a fine of between 3,000 After ascertaining its ship gration across the Mediter- Migrants swim next to their overturned wooden boat during a
and 10,000 euros ($3,200- was the only rescue boat ranean Sea from northern rescue operation by Spanish NGO Open Arms at south of the
$10,500), the charity Open in the area, Open Arms Africa. Italian Lampedusa island at the Mediterranean sea, Aug. 11,
Arms said. said, it informed authorities It is the second time that 2022.
Open Arms called the that the craft would head the Open Arms ship has (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
sanctions a violation of the to the overcrowded vessel, been temporarily impound- Meloni has vowed to take September, nearly 126,000
law of the sea that requires which was about 20 nauti- ed. It and two other char- “extraordinary measures” people had arrived in Italy
boats to rescue people in cal miles, or two hours sail- ity rescue boats were im- to deal with an influx of mi- so far by boat this year,
distress. It said it was being ing, away. pounded over three days grants. According to Inte- compared to 66,000 in the
punished for rescuing 176 The charity said its cap- in August. rior Ministry statistics at mid- same period of 2022.q